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IMPROVEMENT IN BLIND-FASTENINGS.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL` COME Be it known that I, SAMUEL W. HUNTINGTON, of Augusta, in the county of Kennebec, and State of Maine, have invented an improved Window-Blind Fastening;l and do hereby declare the following to be a Afull, clear, and exact description thereof, due reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specication, and in which Figure l is a front view of part of the lower portion of a blind with my invention attached, the blind being hinged to a portion of the window-frame.

Figure 2 is a horizontal section.

Figure 3, a vertical and longitudinal section; and

' Figure 4, an edge view ofthe same.

Figure 5 is au under side View of the blind carrying my invention.

Figure 6 is a representation of the catch-bar; and

Figures 7 and 8, front and side views of one of its socket-plates to be hereinafter referred to.

The object of this` invention is to produce a cheap, simple, and etfective fastening for a window-blind, one easy of construction and application, and one not liable to-get out of order or to be misplaced.

The invention consists in the employment of a drop-catch bar upheld by a metallic socketinserted within and supported by thc lower bar of the blind,and operating in connection with a projection or stud applied to the window-sill or to the side of the house' to which the blind is attached, substantially as hereinafter explained;

In the above-mentioned drawings illustrating my invention7 A denotes the lower bar of a blind hinged to the moulding C forming part of the usual window-frame, the Window-sill bei-ng shown at D, and the inclined studs for locking the blind in position at e e. A recessed catch-bar, a, in form analogous to that of an inverted T, has its shank al, which is square in cross-section, inserted within a metallic socket, b, let into the blind-bar, as represented. The upper portion ci' this shank is formed with a head, c, which is enclosed by the chamber of -the socket in such manner as to allowslight vertcal'movements of it therein, and at the same time` prevent its droppingr out of the same. The lower part of the catch-bar is formed with two inclined hooks or catches d d to slide over and hook upon studs e e applied `respectively to the window seat and to the side of the house, as shown in the drawings. The outer ends of the inclined catches d d terminate in a semicircular ihook for the insertion of a persous finger, for the purpose of raising the catch-bar from oli' either of the studs e e with which they may be in Contact. In order to readily allow the shank of the catch-bar to be enclosed by the metallic socket Z1, the latter is formed in two parts or twin plates a2 a2, with a lateral 1ip,f, on each, through which a screw, o, passes, and is screwed into the blind-bar, the entire socket being secured within the bar by the hole bored in the wood in 'which it is inserted.

The operation of the above-described device, on account of its extreme simplicity, will be understood by any one of ordinary intelligence. To unfasten the blind in either of its positions it is only necessary to raise the catch-bar a suiiicient height to clear it from the studs ce,before mentioned as being applied to the windowsill and to the side of the house respectively. On pushing the blind toward either of the projections e e in the act of opening or shutting the blind, the inclined catches d d will ride over the studs, and the catch-bar drop by its own gravity and be locked to them.

The blind-fastening'above described is easily and expeditiously applied to ablind, ahole merely being bored in the under side of the. lower bar of the blind, and the two parts of the socket, (with the shank -of the catch enclosed between them,) inserted within the hole, and a screw screwed through them, as represented in the drawings; the stud for locking the blind being driven into the window-'sill and the side of the house very much in the usual manner. 'lhere are no springs, rivets, or hinges in the deviceto get out of order or be misplaced or need repair, and its movements cannot be impeded or stopped by snow and ice collecting about it. l It can also be manufaeturedat very little expense.

I claim the combination, with the catch-bar, as described, of the socket formed in two parts' with a chamber for receiving the head'ot` the catch-bar, and for allowing slight vertical movements of the same, substantially as and for the purposes herein shown and set forth.4 i i s. W. HUNTINGTON.

Witnesses CHAS. H. GRIFFIN, C. LLOYD TURNER. 

